The Mao cheer thread ---"After finishing the season I could truly say figure skating is wonderful."

Since I couldn't find her cheer thread searching with several key words, I start this one. She struggled hard with her technical rework and her mother's passing away, and at last she's been coming up to her best. Presumably it could be her final season as a competitive skater. Let's cheer her together. Wishing this one will not be the battle field with the uber fans of the rival skaters. This is the CHEER thread.

September 25 is Mao's 23rd birthday!!
Wishing all of the best for her.

Yes, she has had a tumultuous year. Happy birthday, Mao. Let us hope you can keep your mother within you and that you are happy with where you are and that it translates into your skating.
And those are my last best wishes for her skating in this Olympic year.

Interviewer=Mai Asada: What cheers mean to you, Ms.Asada ?
Mao: Cheers...ummm...Cheers give me power.
Mai: Among those cheering massages can you tell me the most impressive ones?
Mao: Ummm....I've got plenty of cheering letters from my fans....among them....such as "Your performances made me happy even when the result was not good." ....or..."Until now and from now on I keep cheering Mao-chan through good times and bad times." I was so glad to get those messages.
Mai: At the competitions many people cheer you. What do you hear they cheer?
Mao: I can hear they clap their hands and cheer me up before I go out there and throughout my performances. They give me power.

*It seems this interview was done in spring, since Mao says she has three months till the new season begins.

Mai Asada(=interviewer): The new season is coming. What's your feeling at this point ?
Mao: Now I have still three months till the new season begins. I'm feeling I can be IN the season even right now. The preparation is going faster comparing to the usual seasons, while I think I shouldn't be satisfied with my current condition. I want to keep aggressive...and progress further. The coming season is one of the most important ones...but.. I keep it in mind to work as usual.

I don't watch ladies skating at all, but I can't help but have a soft spot for Mao after the hellacious last few years she's had. I'm really pulling for her this year. If she and Kostner skate well in Sochi I will be over the moon concerning that event.

Wow, thank you inskate. I've never been there so it's nice to know they have some people who can translate Japanese into English so that they can understand what Mao tells. I've been feeling sorry for her, since Mao is not a person who talks a lot so somehow people don't understand or misunderstand her thoughts. Having a translater is good for her and her fans. Thanx!

This is an interview aired on Octber 1. Mao takled about Midori and Rach 2. Just for information, Midori was one of the students of Yamada who was the former coach of Mao. Midori has been one of the idols of Mao and they know very well each other.

0:10
narration: Mao announced this season is to be her final one as a competitive skater. Her FS program in this season is...
Mao: FS is to Rach2.
narration: Asada skated to "Masquerade" at Vancouver Olympics and it was one of the pieces by Rachmaninov.
0:40
Mao: In Vancouver season that music made me mature and I was supported by it a lot.
narration: Four years since then, Asada overcame discouragements. She chose one of the Rachmaninov's pieces again in her final season as a competitive skater.
1:00
Mao: Supposedly this music supports me a lot. Midori skated to Rach2 in the Olympics. I want show a good performance at the Onlympics to this music, too.
narration: This music is the legendary number to which Midori Ito skated at Albertville Olympics and won silver medal. She fell on the opening 3A, and then she changed her jumping contents to do unplanned second 3A in her second half. It was the first successful 3A done in the ladies field ever.
1:46
Mao: At the Olympics, unplanned 3A, in the second half, Midori is the one and only who can carry it out.
narration; 18 years since then, at Vancouver Olympics, Mao was the first lady to carry out successful 3As at the Olympics. Besides, she carried out thee successful 3As and won silver medal. The successor to a 3A jumper, Mao Asada breathe&#65363; life into the masterpiece music, Rach 2, at the Sochi Olympics in her final season as a competitive skater.

Only had *1* viewing of Mao's "Rachmaninoff" today and instantly fell in love. Imho it's her best program ever. Period. With this program she can go head-to-head with Yuna and win. *bow*

Just one suggestion, new costume, less is more. She doesn't need anything superfluous to take away from her stunning elegant classical body. And personally if she were to cut her hair and put on some dramatic make-up I think it could only help. Totally transform herself physically. She already has the goods, the program, et al, now for a new "look". Jmho.

Here is a funny episode to tell. They have a all-over advert bus. The photos of the skaters who participate in NHK Trophy(Mao, Satoko, Daisuke and Mura) are printed on the bus. And on the media day the skaters who participated in the media conference of the GPS(Mao, Nobu, Dai and Satoko) wrote their autographs on it. Nobu, as loveable as always, wrote his autograph on Mao's photo and a part of his autograph looked like mustache of hers (just like a graffiti). http://www.nikkansports.com/sports/news/photonews_nsInc_f-sp-tp0-20131006-1200612.html &#65328;eople there larughed a lot. Nobu said "sorry Mao-chan" and "I'm OK with it if done by Oda-san", said Mao. http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20131006-00000036-dal-spo Love them.

1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r84R...ew-vl&list=PLXpyLYDvslxAGf6yQs0usGIpfPRmhr4LV
This video shows the ad-bus I wrote about in my post above. Love them! It seems the media conference was held at a hotel and after finishing it Mao, Nobu, Dai, and Satoko went out of it and wrote their autograph on the ad-bus. So funny they seem unnatural under pressure to walk along the passage with the camera clue. Out there Nobu wrote his autograph on ....see the vid!

1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r84R...ew-vl&list=PLXpyLYDvslxAGf6yQs0usGIpfPRmhr4LV
This video shows the ad-bus I wrote about in my post above. Love them! It seems the media conference was held at a hotel and after finishing it Mao, Nobu, Dai, and Satoko went out of it and wrote their autograph on the ad-bus. So funny they seem unnatural under pressure to walk along the passage with the camera clue. Out there Nobu wrote his autograph on ....see the vid!